Show Report
From the punk favourites mash-up sountrack, to the clothing resembling NY Bodega plastic shopping bags, the collection was eclectic and extreme.
It’s impossible to not like designer Jeremy Scott – well, if you take
fashion with a grain of salt that is. Whether or not his irreverent,
in-your-face wares are your cup of tea, you have to admire the
audacious attitude he imbues his designs with season after season,
seemingly oblivious to whatever trends might be coursing through the
collections outside of his own. For Spring/Summer 2011, Scott payed
homage to the do-it-yourself aesthetic of the late '70s-era New York
punk scene. From the punk favourites mash-up sountrack, to the
clothing resembling NY Bodega plastic shopping bags, the collection
was eclectic and extreme. It was all quite ‘derelicte’ in fact, Mugatu
would have been proud. Silky polyester tank tops and dresses began
with ubiquitous New York logos ‘I love NY’, ‘Thank you for Shopping
Here’, and soon graduated to ‘No Sales are Final’ and a rather
unforgiving, ‘Fuck You’; there were even entire looks created from
flattened aluminium cans. A none-too-subtle fetish vibe also surfaced
– buff men wearing black leather crotchless chaps, and wearing tank
tops with ‘Fetish’ emblazoned across the front got the point across,
as did outré creations for ladies stepping out to screaming vocals,
“some people say girls should be seen and not heard, well I say, up
yours!” To close, Scott sent out his pièce de résistance – a severe,
white bridal dress-cum-straightjacket complete with conical bustier,
veil and chunky white leather boots… As the blushing, or perhaps
bewildered, bride stepped backstage, out came the designer, decked out
in angel wings and white leather crotchless shorts with fringing,
taking in the applause of the thoroughly entertained crowd.
